Count Bobo are a 6 piece group from Bristol playing in the style of early ska and rocksteady. Formed in 2012, they perform a selection of covers from artists like The Skatalites, Roland Alphonso and Jackie Mittoo, more recently including their own material.
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They released their debut album 'Bird of Paradise' on limited edition 12 inch vinyl. The album was recorded by their producer Drezz at 'The Tape Rooms'. As a fully analogue studio, the band was able to record live and straight to tape in an attempt to emulate the records of their early influences.

They have since been gigging the UK festival, pub and club circuit including performances at Glastonbury, Green Man, Shambala, Secret Garden Party and Larmer Tree festival.

Count Bobo is-

Graeme Smith- lead vocals and alto sax
Dan Inzani- keyboards and vocals
Lorenzo Prati- tenor sax
Leon Boyden- guitar
Pete Gibbs- bass
Dan Truen- drums

I'm a song writer and theatre maker based in London, Bristol and Kent.  I've recently self-released an album of songs I've been working on over the last ten years called Seasalter.  It was collaboratively arranged, structured and recorded with Miriam Gould, Owen Hewson, Adam Brodigan, Toby Allen and James Conway and it was mixed and mastered by Neil Sullivan.  

We are currently seeking a band name (suggestions welcome), but until we find one Dominic Conway is me and also a we, in a way.  "We" aim to gig this album and work on a new one.  So watch this space for more information.  

Alongside this I work as Musical Director with Little Bulb Theatre.  I also make music with various friends and family and may upload some of those bits and pieces once I get round to recording them.      

My debut album Beautifully Astray is out now!
“ There’s a lot to love about Abi Wade’s debut album... I found the symphonic and abstract sides of the albums  really come together beautifully and when being theatrical and dramatic –  there’s little less like it out there at the moment. She’s not quite  avant-garde but she’s not really toeing any other line either – and that  makes this album’s title perfectly apt. “ Higher Plain
“a truly gorgeous and mesmerising piece of work from an exciting new talent.” BrightonsFinest

Canterbury based ex-pop beat trekker, harmoniser, DIY songmaker. 

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Manchester-dwelling musician, performer and collaborator. 

Using this as a little portfolio of sounds I've been part of over the years. Some are highly polished studio productions, others are extremely lo-fi works-in-progress. 

Enjoy browsing x

Twitter: @OwenHewson

"Gorgeousness in the Spiro/Penguins zone"
 - fRoots Magazine

"Just once in a while an album comes along that takes you to places you hadn’t realise existed. Arlet’s Clearing did this, and much more, for me."
 - Folk Radio UK (Johnny Whalley)

"organic talent and feeling that bursts through with each track...they make the kind of wonderful, stirring, instrumental, orchestral music that not just folk music, but music in general, is founded."
 - Thank Folk For That (Josh King)

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Arlet are a diverse group of Kent-based musicians, whose music is found somewhere between the folk club and the chamber music hall.

Propelled by the restless creativity of accordionist and composer Aidan Shepherd, their sound brings together all the primary colours of the orchestra - strings, woodwind and brass. A founding musical inspiration is a love of the joyful melodicism and rhythmic intensity of British Folk, but rather than viewing folk traditions as artefacts to be revered, Arlet have drawn on folk idioms as a route to their own brand of carefully sculpted, richly harmonic and lusciously textured music.

Sounding sometimes like a chamber quintet letting its hair down and finding a curious groove circa 1973, sometimes like a session band in the corner of a rural pub suddenly slipping through a vortex into another musical dimension...

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www.arlet.co.uk

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Since their formation at Glastonbury Festival 2002, the ever-evolving collective Moulettes have forged an uncommon course. Over the years, The Moulettes have become an extended family tree, a musical ecosystem with tentacles in London, Manchester, Brighton, Bristol, Berlin, Montreal and more. From the avant-folk of their early al- bums to cinematic orchestral arrangements and big riffs, this is a band who put creativity at the heart of everything they do.

Moulettes have had support from all over the world, with praise and appreciation in the parallel worlds of Folk, Prog and Indie. Key supporters include BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 2, The Independent, MOJO, The Guardian, PROG Magazine, Music Week, Metro & The Evening Standard. As they reinvent and reimagine themselves at every stage with a revolving cast of exceptional musicians, Moulettes music is always distinctively recognisable.

Ian Michael Ross is a multi instrumentalist, composer and Music Director from Bristol, UK. 

Ian started playing music in living rooms, barns and youth clubs in rural Somerset, adding keys and trombone to ska, punk and big bands in the area. He has a degree in Musical Instrument Technology from London Guildhall University and cut his teeth playing festivals, tea rooms, weddings, pavements and raves from New York, U.S.A., to Penzance, Corwall with Bristol based Babyhead and The Zen Hussies throughout his mid to late twenties. 

In 2008 Ian auditioned for Kneehigh Theatre’s Brief Encounter and played Guitar, mandolin, Trombone, Piano and Double bass for its opening at on the Haymarket. There followed more than 20 shows performing and music directing for the company nationally and internationally including, The Red Shoes, The Wild Bride, Tristan and Yseult, The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk (Directed by Emma Rice) and Dead Dog in a Suitcase (Music by Charles Hazlewood, Directed by Mike Shepherd). 

Ian has composed for Kneehigh (Hansel and Gretel, The very Old man with Enormous Wings, The flying Lovers of Vitebsk) and for The Shakespeare Globe (Twelfth Night); currently he is the Director of Music for Wise Children and an Associate Artist of Kneehigh.  

Most recently Ian is Music Director for the Toronto/London run of Girl form the North Country (Written and directed by Colin McPherson, Runaway Entertainment).  

As a workshop leader, Ian has led the Creative Factory for Bath Festivals Trust and is involved with the School for Wise Children. In 2016 Ian went to the Jungle in Calais with Mike Shepherd and Kneehigh to offer workshops with Good Chance Theatre.

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